Topic: Majestic electric blue cut glass Jardinaire Gotta see this!!Sklo Bohemium??

[BRADBURY7308]

Fairly lost about where to start with this i walked into a local antique centre and saw it from a distance and thought it might be a nice piece of deco pressed glass, Upon picking it up and by the finely polished base and weight 3kg i realised it was cut glass. 11" long 5.5" wide. I can only say it feels bohemium to me the unusual decal design in the front im sure ive seen it somewhere before. Its heavily cut and etched in places mainy to the ends the base is heavliy worn so must have good age. Ive never seen this kind of glass in blue before so its new to me any ideas on where i might start to look???

[Paul S.]

probably a stupid thing to say, but apparently W/Fs did some cut decoration on sapphire blue material in the thirties somewhere. 

[BRADBURY7308]

Ah thankyou i do remember seeing a blue one by W/F but my memory didnt serve me well...Im gonna look into this more thankyou for the reply...

[Paul S.]

actually, I was waiting for Emmi to come in a shoot me down instantly, although expect she will yet..............

[BRADBURY7308]

Not having much look getting a look at the WF catalogues yesterday or today i will let you know when ive thouroughy checked them out

[scavo]

This is completely out of the blue but the base of your bowl was very reminiscent of something I'd seen somewhere before - but I couldn't remember where or when. Then, I was browsing though my ebay 'watch list' when I spotted this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190597618851?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

[chopin-liszt]

I can't see any resemblance at all.... :spls:
Was that the wrong link, scavo?

[Paul S.]

Sue - I think Scavo is drawing attention to the 'scalloped outline of the base on the Baccarat piece being similar to the outline of the base on the blue bowl  -  but perhaps a bit too tenuous?

[BRADBURY7308]

I can see similar characteristics on the base foot, Wouldnt know whether its the sort of baccarat quaity as never owned a piece? :X:

[beaubow]

This is completely out of the blue but the base of your bowl was very reminiscent of something I'd seen somewhere before - but I couldn't remember where or when. Then, I was browsing though my ebay 'watch list' when I spotted this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190597618851?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

Sottsass did the bulk of his design work in the 1970s-90s, which would be decades after the bowl in question was made.  That "cog wheel" form was moderately common in glass in the 1930s. 

I'm not saying whether the bowl in question is Baccarat or not -I think it could be French or it could be Bohemian- but I don't think that vase on eBay is significant one way or another.